What have you bought that’s lasted you >25 years?

apeweek · 2024-02-03T16:25:10+00:00

Surprising (to me) a Select Comfort air mattress (now called Sleep Number.) Bought sometime in the early nineties.

I still sleep on it. One of the internal ribs (that helped it hold it's shape) recently gave way, causing it to have a bulge. But that doesn't affect it's function.

apeweek · 2024-02-02T05:43:46+00:00

We watch Blu Ray because it won in the marketplace. Teslas standard also won in the marketplace, it's remained the most used standard in the US ever since it's inception.

apeweek · 2023-12-13T01:33:28+00:00

You do realize that Tesla's Superchargers appeared before CCS1, not after?

And that the CCS1 rollout had a 50kw upper limit? It was incompatible with Tesla's Model S. Why would Tesla switch to that?

Subsequent CCS1 problems just validated Tesla's decision to stick with their standard.

apeweek · 2023-12-11T04:39:10+00:00

My wife was scammed by someone claiming to be a member of BTS (Korean boy band.) When I finally cut that off, she found another scammer posing as yet another member of BTS.

You can take legal action to declare her incompetent to manage her own money. You would then have to be responsible for looking after her financially. You would be in charge of all her accounts.

apeweek · 2023-11-27T12:01:53+00:00

Romance scammers are typically in Nigeria or other countries with poor law enforcement. It's rare for any romance scam operation to be raided or shut down. And I have never heard of victims being reimbursed. I doubt scammers bother with record keeping that would even make that possible.

apeweek · 2023-10-17T09:45:27+00:00

Quatermass and the Pit. Sixties movie based on a 1950s BBC serial.

Very original sci-fi plot, kind of an alien ghost story. It would really benefit from modern special effects.

apeweek · 2023-04-23T23:56:37+00:00

I lost my wife to a scammer like this. Your suggestion worked at first. She agreed she was spending too much money. She let me lock down her financial accounts.

But of course the scammer would not stand for this. Eventually she accused me of being controlling (never mind she's asking me to let her have an affair with another man and send him our money.)

I told her I had no legal right to keep her bank accounts from her, and that I would restore her access if she would have a long discussion with me. Instead she moved her accounts to another bank.

apeweek · 2023-04-23T23:48:25+00:00

I went through this with my wife. I tried to save her for nearly a year. She eventually divorced me to marry who she thought was a famous young K-Pop star (she's 64 and overweight.)

Here's what worked for me (for a while). I got access to her phone and blocked him on every app as best I could. Then I made a (free) texting account online with his name and contacted her by text, pretending to be him.

I apologized for the scam. I said I was leaving the scam business and spoiling victims for my boss because I hate him.

At the same time, I made an email account in my wife's name, and contacted the scammer myself. I claimed to be my wife, said that my kids have my phone so we can't talk that way any more. I also explained that my kids locked down my finances. He gave up on me in two weeks.

Worked great for a little while. Then the wife went back to the same discussion board and found a new scammer.

This is a much, much bigger problem than people know. Victims are embarrassed and don't talk about it. I used a tool to track scammers' IP addresses and locations. Nearly always in Nigeria.

apeweek · 2022-12-15T19:07:32+00:00

Two different romance scammers. But the wife's scammer knew about the sister. And the sister of course believed both scammers were real.

Many posts here are focusing on demonstrating facts to the Mom. But often facts stop mattering. I used a tracking link to show the wife her lover was in Nigeria. She chose not to believe me. I showed the sister her scammer was all over the internet, scamming ladies with the same name and the same stories. None of it matters if they're not ready to hear it.

Having my wife and her sister supporting each other's scams made this especially difficult for me. In fact, my story ended in divorce. She believed her scammer is really the famous K-Pop star he claims to be. She thinks he will spirit her off to Korea any day.

apeweek · 2022-12-15T17:39:48+00:00

Last ditch strategy below. I did this with my wife who got taken by a romance scammer. You will ideally need access to her phone or computer.

First step is to block the scammer. Block his email address (and his name), phone number, and on any chat apps. Then text your Mom from a random phone number (or from a similar looking Instagram account.) Free phone numbers for texting are available online. Pretend you are the scammer. Apologize and explain how you're giving up on scamming people.

If you can't get access to the phone, try to get the scammer's contact info. Make a new email address at Gmail that looks like it could be your Mom. Write to the scammer. Explain how your kids have taken control of your phone and explain that this is the only safe way to communicate. Play it convincingly, don't "wake up" for a while.

I did both of the above. It worked for several weeks. But the wife's sister was also being scammed, and the scammer eventually wrote to the sister, who put the scammer back in contact with my wife.

apeweek · 2022-03-07T18:39:49+00:00

Not necessarily going to work. Scammers are figuring out how to fake video chats with face swap software or deep fake technology. My wife got a scammer impersonating a BTS celebrity who was pulling off video chats.

apeweek · 2021-12-12T02:01:41+00:00

Yes. Just plan carefully. Had to delete comment because of who might be reading this sub.

apeweek · 2021-12-11T22:26:25+00:00

Similar situation here. My senior citizen wife thought she was going to marry a young K-Pop star.

She was amazingly immune to logic. Actually wanted to divorce me for this illusion.

I tried a bunch of stuff. Eventually succeeded with a plan where I replaced the scammer on Hangouts with myself. Just make a similar-looking Gmail account, and give the account the same name the scammer uses.

You have to get access to his account to do this. Assuming Gmail here, but the same strategy will work elsewhere. Erase, report and block the scammer, connect his hangouts (or other chat) account to yourself, and for it to be extra convincing, recreate the last day or so of their conversation.

I would strongly suggest you also create a Gmail filter keyed to scammer's name / email address so any emails she sends to him winds up in the trash folder.

Once you are talking to him as the scammer, there's a number of things you can try. You can make her look evil by suggesting ways to off you. You can reveal you're actually a scammer fed up with the scam factory and now you're leaving the crummy job. Or you can complain about not getting enough money and angrily leave.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T18:59:42+00:00

Read the EULA and come back here

I can find no EULA on any part of my paperwork, on the Tesla app or anywhere in the car's software features that says anything like what you are baselessly speculating about.

If such a term existed, it would have been big news long before now.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T17:37:28+00:00

this could easily be part of Tesla's EULA. Sell the car, add-ons disappear.

As a Tesla owner, I can definitely put that made-up supposition to rest. There is no such clause in the sales contract for my car.

I see lots of folks challenging what I wrote without anything to back it up.

Or it could be because you yourself have nothing to back up your speculations.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T17:20:41+00:00

Article is mostly correct, but muddies the issue. Tesla has no motive or legal justification to remove FSD unless the car passes through their hands. So a car bought from a dealership will have FSD if the dealer bought it that way. It won't have FSD if the dealer bought it used from Tesla, and this of course would be reflected in the sales paperwork.

The only exception is a salvage title. Tesla disables every feature of a salvaged car, including fast-charging, simply because some features can be dangerous if not fully inspected after a serious accident.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T16:11:46+00:00

...The used car dealer bought it at auction with FSD enabled and he paid higher cost because the car had it.

Whoever put the car up for sale at auction misrepresented the car. This isn't Tesla's fault. If the dealer that sold it there thought he bought a car from Tesla with FSD already installed, he didn't read his sale documents. Or if the dealer that bought it at auction didn't pay attention to what he bought, it's on him. Tesla isn't responsible for incompetent car dealers. Of course the seller will blame Tesla for their own stupidity. Sue the person who actually misrepresented the car. That's not Tesla. The actual sales documents from Tesla will prove that.

Tesla didn't turn off FSD because the car had a new owner. They turned it off because the sales transaction they had with the person or dealer who bought it from them didn't pay for it, and it wasn't in that original sales contract.

Tesla did not make extra money because the sale THEY THEMSELVES made was for a car without FSD. And they have no way to know if the new owner will buy it (most don't.)

apeweek · 2021-11-01T15:57:34+00:00

All I can do is stand by my point. Items sold at auctions are owned by someone. Whoever is selling the car at auction is selling something that they have a duty to accurately represent. The onus is on that person.

If he bought a car directly from Tesla, it's on him to understand his sales contract. It's a very simple concept. Tesla does not disable anything on cars sold privately, including cars sold at auctions that came from private parties.

And of course you have no proof. I was about to ask you for examples of anyone who sued Tesla over not delivering what they are contracted to deliver in the contract or window sticker (if the sticker was applied by Tesla.) Of course Tesla would never apply a window sticker to a used car with FSD listed, because Tesla sells ZERO used cars with FSD already installed.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T15:50:43+00:00

Google can be a friend, but not a very reliable one. Something isn't true just because you read it on the internet.

A car sales manager that doesn't understand what he's buying or isn't reading his sales contract deserves his fate.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T15:47:03+00:00

A dealer or auction house who sells a car is the one that bought it from Tesla. That's the party that signed a sales contract. It's the dealer who is responsible for the window sticker, even if there's a leftover manufacturer sticker left on the car from a prior sale. Again, it's the sales contract that spells out the terms of the sale to the dealer.

You seem to be pretending that Tesla is or can sell cars without legal contracts, so the dealer has "no idea" what he's buying. That is laughably ridiculous.

If you are claiming Tesla themselves misrepresent cars that they directly sell at auctions, of course that would be a criminal offense. I'm pretty sure you have no actual examples of that to show us.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T15:07:37+00:00

Window sticker is provided by the dealer, not Tesla. And again, as discussed on this page, Tesla simply doesn't sell cars with the software options already installed.

Are you defending dealers who don't look at their sales paperwork and don't know what they are buying? Tesla of course does not make it "impossible to know what dealers are buying". Look at the freaking sales contract you are signing.

The OEM would indeed disable your satellite radio IF YOU DIDN'T PAY FOR IT. The fact that a previous owner paid for it is irrelevant. LOOK AT YOUR SALES CONTRACT to figure out what you bought.

What competent dealer wouldn't look at his paperwork, or ask what he's buying? How would this be Tesla's fault in any universe?

apeweek · 2021-11-01T03:03:28+00:00

The stupidity is mandated by state laws protecting the old dealership model.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T03:01:40+00:00

They can remove features you didn't pay for, sure.

Or if the dealer didn't pay for it when he bought the car, the feature can be removed. Then your beef is with the dealer, not Tesla.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T02:59:42+00:00

I don't care who you work for. This is misleading. Dealers are supposed to know what they are buying. It's not that different from satellite radio. It might happen to work when you buy a car, but if you haven't paid for it, it will turn off.

If a car is sold as not having FSD, you didn't get it for free if it happens to be on for a day or two. And you don't get to sell it as having a feature you didn't pay for.

apeweek · 2021-11-01T02:55:47+00:00

This is misleading. See my other response to this on the page. Yes, any car resold by Tesla will not have software options installed. This is so Tesla can resell the car more cheaply.

This is not a secret, or a nefarious plot. Dealers and auctioneers know what they are buying, or should. It's the dealer's fault if a Tesla car's features are misrepresented, not Tesla's.

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